Necktie-rack.



PATBNTED MAY 5, 1903.

S. W. BONSALL.. NEGKTIB RACK.

APPLIoATIoN FILED AUG.14, 1899.

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INVENTOR WITNEssEs ATTORNEY Patented May 5, 1903.

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SEYMOUR W. BONSALL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

NECKTIE-RACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 727,274, dated May 5, 1903. Application filed August 14, 1829. YSerial No. 727,244. (No madeld To all whom, it may con/cern: g

Be it known that I, SEYMOUR W. BoNsALL, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented acertan new and useful Improvement in Necktie-Racks, of which the followingzis'a;

specification.

This invention has relation to devicesfor holding neckties, cravats, and the like; and' the principal object thereof is the provision.

of means whereby articles of the kind named may be secu red within anarrow space, Avwhile,

at the same time making it easy to separate and inspect them when it is desiredto choose one for use, as Well as facilitating the removal of any one without disturbing the others.

In the accompanyingn drawings, Figure i1 is a front View of a preferred form of my inven-Y tion. Fig. 2 is a section on the line d b ofr Fig. l, showing one method of applying the wire loops to the fiat support.

The supportl is preferably iiat and carries; along a greater orless portion of its Yedgesav series of wire loops 2, which may be' closed on themselves or 'simplybent like hair-pins. The loops preferably stand so close as to touch edge to edge along the greater part of their length, but are so bent as to to provide awedge-shapedin-take orlead, as at 3. These; loops may be single individuals or may beformed integrally of a single wire bent upon itself.

I prefer the shape ofA flat support shown in Fig. l and the use of a Hexible ribbon, as 4, at the upper end, whereby the whole rack may be hung on a closet-dooior in any other appropriate locality. It will be obvious, however, that other forms of support and disposition of the loops will be within my invention as long as the loops stand side by side, so as to be capable of clipping between them any articles there placed.

A great variety of methods of fastening the Figs. 3 and 41 are sections showing two others of the many,A ways in which the loops may be applied and'.

i loops may be employed without departing from mysinvention; but I prefer to provide a groove into which they are set. Where a wooden rack-support is used, surface veneers 5 inclose these grooves at the sides. In Figs. 2 to 4, inclusive, I have shown three of the many ways in which the loops may be secured in place in said groove, and in Fig. 6 I have shown a fourth arrangement. As shown in Fig. 2, the individual loop 2 or the series of loops is set into the groove between .the securing-blocks 6 and 7. As shown in Fig. 3, the blocks 6 and 7 are used in the same way; but the fastening is rendered even more secureby short right-angle turns 8 opposing each other at the alternate tips-of the loops.- As shown in Fig. 4, the bends 8 are ,'alliu the samedirection and only one retaining-block 7,is used.

Where the arrangement shown in Fig. 2 is employed, the successive wires are immov- -ably held inplace; but where the arrangeementofFLg. 3 or Fig. 4 is used the bends at the tips may be given suficient room under the retaining-blocks 6 and 7 to permit a certain amount of play in the plane of the loops. This permits the excessive expansion due to one or two eXtra-bulky ties to be distributed more or less evenly among the whole system or se- ;riesof loops. Iuthe arrangement'shown in Figfdthis's'ame lateral movement isipermitted, each series ofloops being composed of one or more groups of continuous wire secured 'in placeV by extensions 9 at intervals driven intolthe" body off'the support 1.

As shown in Fig. 5,'the rack normally hangs from the ribbon 4 in a vertical position. In this position the ties lO, which are slipped between contiguous loops 2,which support them, hang in a group behind the rack, overlapping one another. When it is desiredl to inspect all the ties together in order to choose one, the rack is raised by its handle tothe position shown in the figure. The ties then hang separately, so that each and every one may be separately examined, and any one may be drawn out from the rack without handling or otherwise disturbing any of the other ties.

It is to be understood that my invention in its broadest aspect is not limited to devices having any particular shape of body or sup- IOO -for fixing said wires in said grooves so as to permit of play of separate loops in their own plane.

3. In a necktie-rack, a flat body com posed of a middle support and surface veneers eX- tending beyond the edge of said support to form a groove; in combination With a series of contiguous Wire loops xed Within said groove.

4. In a necktie-raok, a body or support, a

groove therein, a series of contiguous Wire loops extending into said groove and a retaining-block Within said groove for xing said loops.

5. In a neoktierack, a body or support, a groove therein, a series of contiguous Wire loops extending into said groove, the tips of which are bent, and a retaining-block in said groove lying over said bends.

6. In .a necktie-raok, a body or support, a groove therein, and a series of contigo ons wire loops formed of single continuous Wires with extensions at intervals extending into said body for securing said loops in place.

SEYMOUR W. BONSALL.

Witnesses:

JAMES S. LAING, HAROLD S. MACKAYE. 

